rational
Issue #145
3 January, 2021 // View full list
# Coronavirus
Covid 12/31: Meet the New Year // Zvi, 37 min
My Model of the New COVID Strain and US Response // Jacobian, 4 min
Overall numbers won't show the English strain coming // UnexpectedValues, 2 min
Cognitive mistakes I've made about COVID-19 // DanielFilan, 2 min
Data about the new coronavirus variant (B.1.1.7) from Denmark // oskar-mathiasen, 1 min
# Instrumental
Give it a google // adamzerner, 8 min Favorite
One Year of Pomodoros // Alex_Altair, 11 min
The Good Try Rule // AllAmericanBreakfast, 4 min
Asking For Help // neel-nanda-1, 13 min
Chain Breaking // mark-xu, 12 min
# Epistemic
Collider bias as a cognitive blindspot? // TurnTrout, 2 min
Dissolving the Problem of Induction // Liron, 9 min
I don't want to listen, because I will believe you // George3d6, 19 min
Uninformed Elevation of Trust // shminux, 1 min
# Ai
Against GDP as a metric for timelines and takeoff speeds // daniel-kokotajlo, 16 min
Reflections on Larks’ 2020 AI alignment literature review // alexflint, 7 min
Dario Amodei leaves OpenAI // daniel-kokotajlo, 1 min
Why Neural Networks Generalise, and Why They Are (Kind of) Bayesian // Logical_Lunatic, 1 min
AI Alignment, Philosophical Pluralism, and the Relevance of Non-Western Philosophy // xuan, 24 min
# Meta-ethics
Notes on notes on virtues // David_Gross, 11 min
My unbundling of morality // rudi-c, 1 min
# Longevity
Anti-Aging: State of the Art // JackH, 13 min Favorite
MORE ON YOUNGING1.0 – THE EMERGING AGING REVERSAL STRATEGY // Vince Giuliano, 13 min
A Science of Wholeness Awaits Us // Josh Mitteldorf, 12 min
# Anthropic
A Simplified Version of Perspective Solution to the Sleeping Beauty Problem // dadadarren, 6 min
# Decision theory
Would the Real Economy Please Stand Up // evan-huus, 5 min
Stock market hints for 2021 from past crashes // bfinn, 2 min
Some recommendations for aligning the decision to go to war with the public interest, from The Spoils of War // elityre, 8 min
Vaccination with the EMH // AllAmericanBreakfast, 9 min
The map and territory of NFT art // frcassarino, 6 min
# Math and cs
2021 New Year Optimization Puzzles // Scott Garrabrant, 2 min
In software engineering, what are the upper limits of Language-Based Security? // MakoYass, 1 min
# Books
Thoughts on being mortal // joekc, 7 min
Review: LessWrong Best of 2018 – Epistemology // Jacobian, 8 min
Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly // KatjaGrace, 2 min
Book Review: On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins (and Sandra Blakeslee) // sil-ver, 17 min
Martin Seligman’s “Authentic Happiness” // David_Gross, 7 min
# Community
"I Don't Know" (2020 Solstice Speech) // Raemon, 3 min
Reviews as "How should this be improved to meet the bar?" // Raemon, 1 min
# Misc
Some end-of-year media recommendations // mingyuan, 11 min
SpaceX will have massive impact in the next decade // ChristianKl, 2 min
Desires as film posters // KatjaGrace, 1 min
Simultaneous Randomized Chess // jkaufman, 1 min
Do You Want the Complexity in the Tools or in Their Usage? // mxshn, 3 min
# Rational fiction
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 13 // lsusr, 2 min
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 11 // lsusr, 2 min
Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 12 // lsusr, 2 min
# Videos of the week
Future Robots - Boston Dynamics Robot Family Dance for New Year // Cities of the Future, 3 min